> But if you don't play games, dualhead and very nice 2D is something Matrox
> got.
>
> seb
>
>
Huh. Someone told me that a long time ago about the Millennium II card.
"Oh, the 2D is great, and you have a Voodoo card to do the 3D (yes, that
long ago), so you're set." Even the hardware review sites liked it. So I
got it. That was absolutely, by far, without a doubt the worst purchase I
have ever made of computer equipment. The 2D was pure crap. My cheesy ATI
2 MB card ran faster than the Millennium II 8 MB. Trust me, it's not fun
watching your screen redraw line by line. That was under Windows at the
time. Now it's in my cooker system (yes, I'm reliving the pain, but I don't
have the cash to get anything else right now for that box), and it's just as
bad under Linux, if not worse. You'd think after it being out for 5 years
someone would have written a good driver for it, so that just tells me it
was fundamentally a bad design right down to the chips.
Ya, that's an old card now, and maybe they got better since then, but at the
time that it was current everyone told me it rocked, and it blew. In my
opinion, ABM (anything but Matrox).
Eaon
